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had similar prob although only when warm then cooled back down would go out stop a few times shopping or whatever come back an hr or so later and it would splutter and not start first time, turned out to be coolant temp sensor

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My car does the same. Air filter changed, spark plugs etc. You have this issue on short journey to like the shops. Ford told me it's the heat sock issue. To fix it to do a pcm update done that using elm config same issue. But I have never tried the coolant temp sensor?

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Engine cranks fine, you have enought power to try starting the engine about 5 times eventually it will start. Something you get the stutters, or starts then dies or the complete fail to start but on 2nd go it works.